Combined recording and calculating machine.



PATENTED MAY 15, 1906.

'0. F. LAGANKE. COMBINED RECORDING AND CALCULATING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.14, 1905.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR.14, 1905.

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0. F. LAGANKE. COMBINED RECORDING ANDVGALGULATING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 14, 1905.

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CHARLES FREDERlCK LAG-ANKE, OF CLEVELAND. OHIO, ASMGNGR, I

.lCLLlOClT-FiSHER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N.

A GORPGRATEQh CQllfiEllNED RECORDlNC-It AND @ALCULATBNG l 'li tiliililhlfiu fipecification of Letters lPatent.

Patented may 15, 19%5.

Application filed March 14,1905. Serial No. 250,059-

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Be it known that 1, CHARLES FREDERICK LAGA'NKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Combined Recording and-Calculating Machine, of which the following is a specification.

Th s invention relates to a combined rccording and calculating machine, and more part cularly to a type-Writer equipped with a computing: device operated by the numeral.- keys to etlect a computation embracing the numerical values represented by the printed dig ts. 1

The objectof the invention is to produce a machine 1 especially adapted for totalizing numbers arranged in a plurality of comparatively narrow parallel columns disposed in immediate juxtaposition.

It has been proposed to cqui p a type-writer with a plurality of computing devices for total zing a plurality of parallel columns. This is a feasible arrangemei'it, provided the columns are spaced apart suiiiciently to accomn'iodate between them the adjacent side walls of the register-casings, and provided, further, that the spaces apg'iropriated on the worksheet to the respective columns equal inwidth the series of number-Wheels of the respective comput ng devices or reg sters, s nce it is evident that in printing outside of a column which is narrower than the register approprk ated to it the reg'ster or comput ng device would be actuated and a false computation r flected. it happens, however, that in variour; commerc al lines there have been adopted standard forms in the filling out of which theconditions ahove recited cannot be compl ed with. One such form illustrated in the drawngs, (see figure 6,) it bc ngnotcd that at the raid-hand s'de of the sheet are thrccco'mparzuivcl -r narrow columns in immcdate iuxtaposit ou---that is to say, separated only by div dingdines. it is necessary to totalize curl: ol -thcse (-olun'ms, and it is also dcs rablc to prov'de l'or totals having, a greater number oi" denominational posit ons than can be printed in the cohu'nns. To the atta nment of these ends the present ii'ivent'on is pr mar'ly directed; but a subordinate l'oature thereof res des in a novel arrangement of resett ng mechanism where by certain independent sets of number-- wheels may be reset separately or simultanee d F ously, as desired.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig. l. is a plan View of an Elliott-Fisher type-Writer: equipped in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the computing dev'ce with a portionof the actuating mechanism thereof shown in elevation. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the computing device. Fig. 4 is a plan View of the computing device Withthc cover removed. Fig. 5 is a trans-- verse section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 2. Fig. (i is a plan view of a form with. a portion 0i i computing device shown in plan to illust te the relation of the computing device to the columns to be totalized', and Fig. 7 is a sectional elevation of the machine.

For the purposes of this disclosure 1 have. utilized an Elliott-Fisher type-Writer as the recording mechanism of my machine. his type-writer is exemplified in Patent 573,868 to R. J. Fisher and is of that i wherein the printing or recording mech. is movable longitudinally and lateral flat platen to eilect the line and letter s of the characters printed upon the sheet supported in a flat spread-o t on upon the platen. N o eil'ort made to describe the structure oi" the further than to say that it compris chine-Frame 1, mo longltudina flatplatcn (not shown) and supports riagc 2, ii'itcrmittently movable ire. of the platen. upon the iuacl'iiu'i*-. controlled in its step-h v-stcp adv ter and numeral keys 3 and Will the pr nt ng or recording; dc s.

' in rear ol" the Inacl'iinedrauu: l :i no 5 is supported parallel therewith by hr; 6. On the bar 5 is slidalily supportm puting device or register-casing 7, do to be shifted along the her and secured ii! p sition for use with respect to columns lot at any desire-1 point on the work- 'Within the casii'ig 7 are mountc digitwarricrs o nuii'lbcr-wi'iccls, arraiugeincut of which all" he her more particuiarl; described. For t. out it may he said that these r i is mounted to rotate upon a connnon which. is parallel with the travel oi the cs" riage 2 and that they are disposed to he i gagged in succession by a mastenwheell 8, mounted on the typewriter carriage l and designed to be rotated a different distance by each of the numeral-keys. The manner eflecting the operative connection between the master-Wheel and the numeral-keys need not bedescribed in detail, for the reason that the specific construction and arrangement of this connecting mechanism constitute no part of my present invention, although it is shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 7 to complete the disclosure.

The numbcnwhccls 9 are divided into independent grou s or sets a, l), and all mounted upon t e same shaft 10, which'cxtends transversely (l the casing 7 and is journaled in the o posits side walls thereof, as best shown in *ig. 5. In the present embodim ent of the invention each group or set includes six wheels, representing thousands, hundreds, tens, and units of dollars, tens of cents, and cents, the tens-of-cents wheel be ing of'double width to accommodate the decimal-space. Obviously, however, the norm her of wheels comprising each set may be varied, as well as the number of sets in the easing, and the wheels instead of re )resentirg dollars and cents may have any 0t er appropriate significance, it being immaterial whether the unit is expressive of value or quantity and it being equally in'imaterial Whether or not one or more wheels are utilized for the computation ofdecimal fractions. Each of the several wheels, as shown in Fig. 2, has twenty peripheral teeth bearing upon their end faces two series of characters ranging from 0 to 9, and as the wheels are rotated by the master-wheel these digits or characters are exhibited in. succession at a sight-opening 11 in the top wall of the casing 7 Associated with the number-Wheels of each set or group is suitable carrying mechanism, whereby when a given Wheel moves from 9 to 0 the adjacentwheel ofhigher order will be automatically advanced asingleincremerit. The specific character of this carrying mechanism constitutes no part of my present invention; but in order that the operation may be understood the mechanism shown more particularly in Figs. 2 and i for cll'ccting the carryng, or transfer will i e briefly described.

In rear of the Wall 7 is disposed a rod 12, upon which are nounted a series of transferlevers 13, one of these levers being arranged opposite each 01'' the wheels, with the exception of the Wheel at the right-hand end. of each set or group, for which wheels it is unnecessary to provide transfer-levers, since no carrying movement thereof is ever ellected. Each transfer-lever is provided at its front end with a laterally-ollset contact-plate 14, extended. .between a pair of number-wheels and arranged to be engaged by either of a pair of lugs or projections 15. extending iaterally from the nuirher that is to se the in contactplate j: are carried by the. nan of the Wheel is located. diai'netrically or ,1 1 A complete rotary in en Wheel is the equivalent 0. twenty in? an increment being a unit of niovci'nen resented by the dis Vi hen a numherw merits from its nori digi t 9 on said wheel will posit-e the sightaning projections 15, carrie J. in contact with the lever. The nest incrsrne the wheel will cause the press the plat 1 lront snd o'l is ment oi. the li gle increment of posi which is i swings the lever.

The connection between each ver and the wheel served or iri d l established through the 'fendog 16, pivotally mount end. of the lever and. desis l to exten or and engage one of the peripl'ieral. teeth of "l adjacent. number wheel. The trs 16 are swung for. ,Jardly into opera tion with the teeth of the I111I11l)81-Wl1GQlS vibrators 17, having their .ront ends it; s posed to engaged and operated by bratonactuatm l9. movable with the rings of the typevibrators 17 also utilise fer-levers in their no n tions,each vibrz having e i lateral projection 2i), norn notch 21 in the adjacent JV hen the vi ater is operated by tor 1),thcn in 2'C inoveso 21,thusrelea rig. same movement st. 1 of the adj acent numb er then swung down hr" to etlect the carrvin or 4 from one Wheel to one ier. with the numberr/he l" are is. scrie. ing; locators 22, whic. insure of the digits at the s' litmpening,

Above the th uster-lam c s 15 are a s lockingdevms each having; a w

Sore. a co: :helevc 1r rear end 2 nd a curved lrimt end 525. transfer-levers l3 normally engage, 1e lo: mgdevers in rear of the lulcz'ums :1 the lat tcr, so that when a traiisier-ltwcr is ope to transfer motion from one 'wheel to another it simultaneously operate e adjz" t lociing-lever l or the purposeol' a.

end of the latter in lo'g.

* a manner down to operso the left, oe t if" *2 Motion O1 2. Slllgif) resetting lever for both of these ;wo othernd eo groups or sets of numberch of the levers for the two '5 except the iever serving the xit hend end of the set 3) (see io'viijled with a lstrslly-dlsposed 'h extends over the upper edge of or to the left. Thus when 10iil ll1--l66f$ in Jed to its look- 25 will depress the adjow l US i which will in turn depress the oi the left-liand gm 1;) or set some so. with proootions 26.

' inputmgz device oeretion ups of Wile-A5 The various. 3 1" "numbers tool or. lling prices. ior totalizct until Y the vei'lous i Wheels Vided 'l'or each number-Wheel and is formed l two diametrically opposed should ers 32. en the shaft 10 is rotated by the resetting- .lever J7 one of theseshoiilders of each resetting-oam engages a resettingpawl 33, carried by the adjacent number-Wheel to the right, and the shaft continues to rotate with the cam and paw! in engagement the number- Wheel will he reset at zero. The transfer-levers are returned to their normal positions by s rocker 34 common to all the transfer-levers serving the two groups of Wheels 6 and c and operated bye. slide 35, projecting through the fi'ont of the regi. .er-casing and operated by the carriage during the retraction thereof.

'This sl de 35 is also connectedv to the lower end of a. swinging arm 36, having a projection.

37, upon which bears the front end of a latohv lever 38. I

It will of course be understood that preparatory to resetting certain or all of the transfer and locking levers may occupy their depressed positions and for this reason a loclaingdever reflector 39 is mounted to swing from a shaft 40 and is provided with forwardly-extending arms 41 and l2, sce Fig. 4,) the latter havin an angular end 43, which projects over the rear ends of one or two of the looliingdevers at the left-hood end oi the right-hand groupthat is to say, the si izlar end 43 projects over the two lookinglsvei's which serve the two wheels 01 highest order of the group F). The front end of the arm 41 of the retmctoi' 39 is disposed under the log or projection 37 of the swinging arm. is swung IFO Thus when the latch-lever 3. preparatory to the resetting operation the.

j otion 37 will be depressed, thus swing- C 1 arm 36 to opemt liojroolcer 34 and restore toe transfer-levers 1. positions ahdolso swinging the locking-lever i'etmctor to cause the mm 4. 2 thereof to depress the resrcnds oi locliiim-levei's engage thereby. The ids or" these levers thus swung up communicated to the on by reason oi. the feet es the Eaten is swu .si'rihe this mechsi 1-1 in i The manner in whiel'i the two groups of Wheels Zr and c are sinmltzmeously has H173. been explained, and it may he remarked. that the group or set of wheels c2 god by (1, I25

liset by an inde'p velvet u i letter Wheels (1. instead of T0 ly on the shalt '20 are n'zountcil on a s; we

ently thereof. 9 sleeve is eqnippez. if resetting-cams siniiier to i and the Wheels a re equip o pawls 33, precisery {is her At the outer end. of pinion 30", sinii, er to the pinion ranged to be operated by :1 seconi lever 27, constructed, monn eterl precisely like the le levors23, which serve the \1 pendent of the other gren w o the Wheels i) and (1, but in 3 dependent relation by mean; are likewise retracted by a re 1 P erated by the resetting-hr 2'7.

The described median the transfenlevers of the wheel 'cated at the left-hand side of in other Words, the trans; i. vers serving the wheels 5 sin themselves operated resetting by the rnzmipnl: and its associi'tterl pin' lar but independent nieirhzm I the separate lever 27, prov l rl for ing the resetting of he wheels o. be stated at this point that neither ing mechanism, the wheel-locking it o ism, nor the resetting mech-misin specifically constitute snv invention, the advsntm is i roviijlingin it machine of i. ity of separate computing rlevir I or registers in a single easing wit est possible economy ol nice in o l cilitatc the totalizing of compsrstiwly l .t row clireotl enjoining columns.

The invention also resides in mounting these several groups or sets of wheels u on :i common sup )ort which is adjustable to commodate t e particular location of thin-olumns on s work-sheet and it still fnri her i ture of the invention reside in the relative arran ement of the reset i ig nierlnniisms Wherri by certain of the sets of wheels or Few isters While capable of computing r'iillcreut totals may be simultaneously reset inilr peruh ently of another group of wl'iecls, which may be reset when desired.

It will now he observed by roi'erviiro more particularly to Fig. 6 that by :u'rrrir i l of the wheels in a single series of eqiiiihsiimt units eighteen registering \Jll-"kflfi, lor in-- stance, may be appropriated for the iUillilL r rnoiliilcnt come iin i (ill:

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oocrnterl nirhiiii n; ol a eoinpulin in it eontimions wheels mounted in snisms forming il pendent groin. of ranch group or set naming cooperative relstir n, ii master means 0pc the keys of the typo-writer to rot i e number-wh els, :liifl separate i'csctln'ig mechanisms including opcizrtme' members lornteil beyond the opposite ends of Lin 1%. The comb. irmohine inclurli n ini'jing on ice including it crisnlinerl numberc" Ty ng; mesh- .tili'lil with at typije-writing: I the n'inting devices and .t 1 ol' :1, compntii mire including it ansin ii rontimious 60119; of elineil numbern'heels mounted in the cash (a 1'! ing rm rimsms forming the sei les or ii heels into inrlo pendent groups or so the Wheels oi cur-h group or set having ooi'iperritivo rohi'tion, it n'iiisler moans operated by the lteys oi the type-Writer to rotate the numberwheels, and separate reset i reclnmisms one oi which is common o a plurality of groups or sets oi nun'ibor "tools.

'l c ((H1li)ll iltiiUil with il, typrwai'riting machine inolnriiiif) laterally-inornhlo curl-mgr, ztiifl devices and keys movable with the of it computing esaesi device including a casing, several independent groups or sets of number-Wheels mounted in the casing, the wheels of each set being cooperatively related, a master means operated by the typewriter keys to rotate the number-Wheels, and separate independent resetting mechanisms for diil'erent sets or groups of Wheels, one of said mechanisms being com- ."monto a plurality or groups or sets.

5. The combination with a type-Writing machine including a frame, a laterally-movable carriage, and printing devices and keys movable with the carriage, oia computing device including a casing, several independent groups or sets of number-Wheels mounted in the casing, the Wheels oi each set being cooperatively related, a master means operated by the typewriter keys to rotate the numher-Wheels, a wheel-resetting mechanism located one oi the computing-device casing and arranged to client the simultane ous resetting oi" a plurality of groups or sets of number-wheels, and a second resetting mechanism located at the opposite side of. the casing and a1 angcd to ell'ect the resetting of a sin l group or oi Wheels.

o. l; con'ioination with recording mechamsiu i operating keys 't'rerei or, of a coin device including a shaft, a group 3 or oi. lil'tlnilXll'WVllBQlS mounted on the shaft, a sleeve carried by the shaft and rotatable ind cpendently t hereof, a second group or set of nun]her-Wheels mounted on the sleeve, key-operated master means "for operating the v number rheels, and wheel resetting mechanisms, one including means for rotating the shalt and the other including means for rotating the sleeve.

7. The combination With recording mechanism and operating-keys therefor, of a computingdevice including a casing,'a shaft extending across theoasing and having a reduced portion, a sleeve rotatable on the re duced'portion of the shaffla plurality of independent groups or sets of numbenwhcels mounted on. the snatt, another group or set of numberovhecls mounted on the sleeve, lrey- 7 tted means for rotating the numberesettmg mechanism including the sh U0 simultanegroups crests of number;

ousiy t Wheels moui ta ting means tor rotating the sleeve to reset the number-wheels carried by the latter.

d thereon, and a second reset--' The combination with recordin mech-" anism and a master means operated thereby, of a computing device operated by the master means and including several independent groups or sets of number Wheels, locking means common to the Wheels of said sets or groups, wheehresetting means, and means operated by the resetting means for simultaneously unlocking the locked Wheels of said groups or sets.

9. The combination with recordin mechanism anda master means operated t iereby, of a computing device operated by the master means and including a plurality of independent groups or sets oi numbenwheels, locking means for the Wheels of said sets or groups, and resetting means common to a plurality of groups or sets of wheels and arranged to effect the unlocking of the Wheels prior to the resetting thereof.

10. The combination with recordin mechanism and a master means operated t ereb y, of a computing device including several independent groups or sets of Wheels, locking means for the Wheels of each group or set, and a plurality of resetting mechanisms, one of said mechanisms being common to a plurality of groups or sets of Wheels and arranged to unlock said wheels prior to the resetting thereof and the other resetting mechanism being arranged to o )erate a single group or set of number-Wheels and to unlock the same.

11. The combination with a fiat platen, of a type-writing machine mounted to travel thereover and including amaohine-frame, a carriage movable on the frame, printing mechanism movable with the carriage, and keys for operating the printing mechanism, a guide-bar carried by the machine-frame, a computing device adjustable on said guidebar and including several independent groups or sets of Coifiperatively-related number-Wheels, and a master means mounted on the carriage and operated by the keys to actuate the number-wheels of the computing device.

' In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own l have hereto aflixed my s1 gn ature in the presence of two W1 tnesses.

v Clint liES Fltlllllilltlllli LAGAIKE. Witnesses:

W. T, MoELRoY, ARTHUR Cownnnr. 

